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is  porcine  bliss?  Attainability  of  hog  wash";  if  we  pollute  our 
several  professions  for  the  sake  of  gain,  we  are  in  court  with  unclean 
hands;  not  doing  equity,  we  cannot  ask  it.  If  we  want  to  play  the 
charlatan  we  must  take  his  wage. 
A  druggist  pleading  against  cut  rates  on  Jones's  Sure  Cure  for 
Consumption,  or  a  veterinarian  pleading  for  state  protection  when 
he  is  making  fake  tuberculin  tests,  is  not  a  subject  for  sympathy, 
but  rather  for  contempt.  However,  I  am  assured  that  most  of  us 
want  to  help  the  world  along ;  that  we  desire  to  leave  our  profession 
better  for  our  precept,  life,  and  example. 
I  am  an  old-fashioned  man,  and  sometimes  I  find  myself  think- 
ing that  some  of  the  business  efficiency  I  see  advocated  in  your 
journals  could  be  very  well  replaced  by  a  greater  devotion  to  your 
profession,  and  I  take  this  view  because  my  own  life  has  demon- 
strated to  me  that  most  of  us  in  the  long  run  get  our  deserts. 
"  Let  not  your  hearts  be  troubled."  The  Nurnberg  druggists  were 
asking  for  protection  in  the  fifteenth  century,  the  English  in  the 
seventeenth,  and  the  Americans  have  carried  on  the  cry  to  -the 
twentieth. 
Charles  the  Second  of  England  apologized  to  the  courtiers  round 
his  bed  for  being  so  long  a-dying,  and  surely  poor  old  pharmacy 
should  make  a  similar  apology  to  you,  who  are,  so  far  as  I  can  see, 
very  much  alive. 
Place  Charles  Kingsley's  motto  over  your  desk  and  try  to  live 
up  to  it.    Here  it  is : 
If  I  were  a  cobbler,  it  should  be  my  aim 
The  best  of  all  cobblers  to  be ; 
If  I  were  a  tinker,  no  man  in  the  land 
Should  mend  a  tin  kettle  like  me. 
Gentlemen,  I  wish  you  a  safe  delivery  from  your  finals,  and  a 
happy  issue  out  of  all  your  youthful  tribulations. 
March  29,  1915. 
AN  HISTORIC  DRUG  STORE. 
By  J.  W.  England. 
On  behalf  of  Edmund  A.  Crenshaw  (who  received  it  from  the 
grandchildren  of  the  late  Daniel  B.  Smith),  I  wish  to  present  to  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  a  photograph  of  a  drug  store 
which,  in  its  day,  was  one  of  the  most  noted  of  the  country.  Founded 
